The first four volumes of Col (later Brigadier) R H Phillimore's monumental work, the Historical Records of the Survey of India, are uploaded here. There was also voulme 5 published in 1968, after Phillimore's death. This 5th volume was subsequently with drawn by the Govt of India, as there were issues of border security to do with the McMahon line between India and China and so on. However, a downloadable copy of this volume can be accessed at the Cambridge Yale site : DigitalHimalaya http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/rarebooks/
Reginald Phillimore's work covers the early 18th Century, East India Company, days of surveying in India, reaching up to the late 19th Century and includes the progress of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, the estimation of the height of Mt Everest, the development of surveying techniques and instruments as well as the difficulties presented by the terrain, climate and political developments including wars between the British and the Indian states as well as the Afghans, Burmese and so on. Inextricably linked in part with the Great Game, this set is a historical account of those times in surveying, complete with extracts from official minutes and reports and comprehensive biographies of the various surveyors, many of them illustrious names i the discipline. This set, per favour of Pahar dot in, includes all the maps in full form scan presentation and is in colour.
